GOOD LUCK GPS ATHLETES!

Good luck to our boys who will be representing us in the GPS Athletics Championships on Saturday and Sunday. Normally one of the big days of the year when all GPS schools come together to compete, the boys will be competing without spectators with the Seniors events on tomorrow and the Intermediate and Juniors to be held on Sunday. We wish the following boys all the very best for their respective events over the weekend: James Frederikson, Maxim Moloney, Oliver Maroulis, Harry Darling, Luke Elias, Nick Shortis, Ethan Quintana, Julian Fitzgerald, Henry Roberts, Oliver Roberts, Angus Wallace, Nick Grosvenor and Max Jorgensen.
The boys have worked very hard during these unusual and unsure weeks and are ready to do their best. As you can see by the photos below, they are in good spirits, some more relaxed about the occasion than others!!
I would also like to acknowledge the boys whom trained right through the weeks and holiday period, but missed out on selection. Their efforts have definitely been admired and more so the character displayed when being told they would not be competing typifies the quality of young men they are. I would especially like to acknowledge Xavier Leaver, Sebastien Procter and Harrison MacDougall for their respective efforts here.

WRITE A BOOK IN A DAY

Last Friday, eleven Yr.10 boys were involved in the annual Write a Book in a Day competition, involving groups from all Years in our Resource Centre. Xavier Leaver, Otto Chaplin, Tom Bovell, Charlie Rowley, Jackson Basha, Tom Madden, Ethan Quintana, Jimmy Rylands, Darcy Rogers, James Frederikson and Daniel Chenu represented Yr.10.

Following is an account of the day from Xavier Leaver:

“Write a book in a day began at 8 in the morning with all the boys gathered around the tables in the library separated into their different year groups. Ms Roden told us that she would be running the day and began to tell us about what it is we were going to be doing. Unsurprisingly, we were writing a book in a day. However, there was a bit more to it than that. The whole day was about raising money for cancer research which all of us boys saw as a really important cause. The book we were writing would be for sick children in hospital. This encouraged us to really get into it and give it our best shot. Our story couldn’t just be about anything though, there were set parameters for the story to follow. Ours were that the story must have a fairy, a plumber and an athlete; it also had to be set in a shopping center and be about making a new friend. From this, through much planning and re-planning, my group decided to make the story about a robbery. I think that Write a Book in a Day was a great experience for all of us boys involved, not only because it developed our writing skills but also because it was for such an important cause”.